White-Label Space Shuttle

You've seen late-release Activision games with white text on a blue background, right? They're usually a bit rarer than the regular picture-label, so naturally there's a number of collectors who like to collect them--me for one.

In this case, however, the cart is black-on-white instead of white-on-blue. Same style and all, just different colors. Apparently these white-label variants were released primarily overseas and not in the US, so it's fairly exciting for us yankee blue-label enthusiasts to find a white-label Activision cart locally.

You would normally expect a cart from overseas to be PAL, but this one seems to be regular ol NTSC. I won't know for sure until I can dump the cart and compare the code to another. Mysterious, yes, but the enigmatic and unusual finds are where much of this hobby's excitement is.

Want to know more? Check out Deleto's White-label conspiracy page.

Update

Ok. I saw another white-label Space Shuttle cart at a flea this weekend. The guy who owns it is one of those clueless idiots who prices carts at a flat $5 each, so I really didn't want to encourage him by purchasing it. I might go back for it. Of course, I might not.

Jay Tilton
01/06/97